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A study of the relationship betwen court festivity and theatre in 16c Spain. Dr Ferrer Valls studies the relationship between court festivity and theatre in the sixteenth century, placing special emphasis on staging. She argues that throughout the reign of Philip II court spectacle perpetuates the complicated staging of traditional performances, but with greater emphasis on their dramatic aspects and on the use of music and song. In the first two decades of the seventeenth century, and above all in specific plays by Lope de Vega, court spectacles come to reflect also the influence of Italian...

Excerpt from El Doctor D. Manuel Mila y Fontanals: Semblanza Literaria La Edad Media espanola va renovandose en todas sus partes por el concurso de propios y extranos. Pero el pabellon aislado y humilde que Mila construyo desafia hasta ahora la in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in...

The book offers an in-depth, critical appreciation of seven major Spanish poets. Emphasis is on the modern period, with five of the poets being twentieth-century poets. It is argued that the roots of modern poetry are to be found in Romanticism's anguished search for meaning. The seven Spanish poets include Becquer, Rosalia de Castro, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, Garcia Lorca and Rafael Alberti.

Digo yo es un libro que se mueve entre el ensayo, la poética y la crónica; en él, Segovia nos invita a reflexionar sobre cuestiones literarias, científicas, artísticas, históricas, filosóficas y políticas, sobre lo que es humano. El yo se manifiesta como opinión desde una perspectiva personal en relación con el mundo y los acontecimientos reales, se percibe al lenguaje como una entidad viva y en constante cambio, tal como cualquier hombre.